As show producers prepare to face a wave of postponements, even cancellations, due to coronavirus, a handful of film producers have joined the dance. In the history of cinema in France, this is unprecedented.
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Tuesday, March 3, the American studio Warner Bros postponed the release of Miss , scheduled for March 11, to September 23. "We prefer to postpone the release of Ruben Alves' film to give him every chance to meet his audience," say the producers. With its traffic jam of films, not sure that the start of the school year is ideal, but Warner Bros and the French producer Hugo Gélin anticipate the fact that cinemas will become depopulated for fear of contamination. The postponement of another film, Rocks , by Sarah Gavron, from April 15 to June 17, is due to the fear that the cinemas will close. The distributor Haut et Court preferred to quickly cancel its poster campaign. Are they right or wrong? We will not know until long.
In the rooms, there is no psychosis. Attendance has not decreased, including this past weekend
Marc-Olivier Sebbag, general delegate of the National Federation of French CinemasIn the next fifteen
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